我对杰弗里乔叟的评论 My Comment on Geoffrey Chaucer
姓名:钱勇 班级:09级英语本科二班 学号:19
My Comment on Geoffrey Chaucer
1. His life
Geoffrey Chaucer, a great narrative poet, is thought of as “Father of English Poetry”. He was born in a well-to-do wine merchant’s family in
In 1359, he joined in the Hundred Years War and went with the English army to
In 1386, he was elected Member of Parliament, but lost that post soon, due to the maneuvers of his enemies. He had some difficult time. In 1389, he was made Clerk of the King’s Works at
After Geoffrey Chaucer died, he was buried in the Westminster Abbey. The place became the famous Poets’ Corner.
Geoffrey Chaucer was a creative author. His creative work reflected the changes which had taken place in English culture sine the second half of the 14th century. During that, the foundation of the feudal system was challenged by people’s insurrections like the 1381 peasant uprising. In religion, the glory of the Catholic Church was also on the wane. Chaucer’s creative career is usually divided into three phases:
? The phase of French influence
? The phase of Italian influence
? The English phase
The phase of realism, in which his masterpiece, the
2. His works
His major work is Canterbury Tales. In this work, Chaucer presents a picturesque panorama of his contemporary
3. His contributions
Geoffrey Chaucer learnt from both French and Latin poetry and then worked out a unique style for the English poetry that had absorbed nourishments from the more advanced European poetry of the time and at the same time reserved its Anglo-Saxon poetic features. And the realism and humanity concerns demonstrated in his works looked forward to the coming English Renaissance.
His literary career was also closely related with the development of English. There were several dialects in the spoken English of Chaucer’s time. But because he used the English of the
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